RMAAPM OFFICERS OVER TIME:

History of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of AAPM

Chapter Origins: The Rocky Mountain Chapter was formed about 1970 by Bill Hendee, Paul Carson and Ed Chaney. Paul and Ed were in their first professional position as assistant professors at the University of Colorado. Paul was hired by Bill to develop a graduate program in medical physics in the department of radiology at the University. Ed was hired to develop an innovative educational program for radiologists and radiologic technicians. Geoff Ibbot, Paul Carson and Ed Chaney were the core physicists working under Bill Hendee's direction. Medical physicists were so scarce in this geographical area that the chapter had to include several surrounding states to meet the minimum number of physicists in a chapter required by AAPM.

Original Chapter area: Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, although there were no physicists in the last state at the time.

Quiet years: There was little activity in the early years, but there was an informal organization called DAMP (Denver Area Medical Physicists) that would meet occasionally organized by someone at the University of Colorado or Gordon Kenny from Presbyterian Hospital. Dave Taylor and Gordon Kenny worked to keep the chapter alive calling meetings from time to time, in which mostly Colorado-based physicists would meet in the back of Bennett's BBQ house.

Origins of an ACR standard: At one DAMP meeting, and years before ACR addressed the issue of creating a standard, the group decided to use a 4.5 cm lucite phantom and report the mid breast dose for a 50/50 composition using the Rosenstein method. This eventually (after some modification) became the national standard.

Jack Kromer, Bill Hendee, Ed Chaney

Bill Hendee, Paul Carson-”Wet Picnic”

Dick Banjavic, Chuck Meyer, Steve Jones, Ann Scherzinger, Paul Carson, Tom V. Oughton. Ultrasound research group at UCMC led by Paul. Ray Rossi first dedicated

diagnostic medical physicist at UCMC

Dale Fitting, later Ph.D. in acoustics, now in Fairplay, CO. Philip Rouch, MS, long time medical physicist, Henry Ford Hosp., Detroit.

Greg Gibbs, student years

Bill Hendee - Cowboy

Grad students Tony Ho and Dave Herron

Tom Chenevert, PhD student (now Prof. Of Radiology, Univ of Mich.)

First MeV CT-simulator

From To President Board Rep. Secretary/Treasurer

Original William Hendee*

1974 1975 J. Edward Barnes Arvid Lundy John F. Dicello

1976 1977 Paul Carson* Arvid Lundy Francis Harshaw

1979 Frances Harshaw Roy Summers Richard Lane

1981 Richard Lane Isaac Rosen James Hevezi

1983 Geoffrey Ibbott* Richard Lane David Wylie

1984 Charles Kelsey Richard Lane David Wylie

1985 David Matthes Richard Lane Wesley Wooten

1986 1993 Edward Hendrick Jeffery Williamson David Herron

1994 Edward Hendrick

1996 1998 Gerald White* David Herron

1999 2003 Timoth Johnson

2001 David Herron

2003 2006 Douglas Pfeiffer Donna Siergiej

2007 2009 Steve Jones Douglas Pfieffer Shawn Meyer

2010 2012 Mike Tallhammer Steve Jones Shawn Meyer

2013 2015 James Jones/Roy Keyes Cem Altunbas Yevgeniy Vinogradskiy

2016 2018 Alex Markovic Rebecca Marsh Vikren Sarkar

* AAPM Past President